always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Let's not get too comfortable with each other.

People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.